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Emotional Impacts of Life Beyond Convent Walls: Embracing New Horizons by Adaku Helen Ogbuji, CCVI, Ph.D.
Emotional Impacts of Life Beyond Convent Walls: Embracing New Horizons
by Sr. Adaku Helen Ogbuji, CCVI, PhD
This book offers a profound exploration of the emotional and spiritual aftermath faced by women who leave or are dismissed from religious life. Drawing on extensive interviews and research, the book unveils the trauma, identity disruption, and search for healing that follow life beyond the convent. With pastoral sensitivity and psychological insight, it calls the Church toward greater compassion, justice, and accompaniment.
Paperback: $14.95 | Audible: $14.99 | Kindle: $9.99
TESTIMONIALS
“Emotional Impacts of Life Beyond Convent Walls is a deeply human and theologically attentive work, illuminating hidden wounds with clarity and compassion, while inviting the Church toward a more faithful, healing accompaniment of those who have journeyed beyond.” — Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, co-author with Ronda Chervin of Catholic Realism
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sister Adaku Helen (Helena) Ogbuji, CCVI, PhD, belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston, Texas. She is an author of several books. She holds a master’s in Theology, Divinity and Psychology and a PhD in Counseling Psychology. Presently, she is the Formation Director and the Novice Director in their formation house in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Laura, through personal experience, has learned to use therapeutic tools integrated with her Catholic faith to engage her whole self – mind, heart, soul, and body – in the healing process. As Laura has come to know Christ the Bridegroom and experience His authentic spousal love, He has healed her physical, emotional, and psychological wounds and continues to heal her heart.
